Wes Phillips

Read Matt Taibbi's obituary of Boris Yeltsin.

This 25-year-old rant by Pauline Kael is even truer today.

As a work-at-home guy, I wonder about this all the time—especially when I visit Park Slope during the daytime. Doesn't anybody there have a job?

On our morning rides, Jeff Wong and I pass one point that has recently been covered with geese resting on their migration south. We've been wondering why here? and Why a "V"?

Money quote: "Not one student said, I am studying English "because I want to make a lot of money" or 'because my parents made me.'"

Julian Lloyd Webber asks a big question.

I do believe in copyright and I do believe that creators deserve to benefit from their creations. However, very few works of literature remain popular even 20 years after their creation–and the current standard, recently extended by another 20 years, merely prevents legitimate uses, such as this case, where James Joyce's grandson is being pompous little pimple about who is "worthy" to write about his uncle.